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Mercury

It’s Gator Season!

It’s Gator Season!

Many discussion and research endeavors have focused on subsistence fishermen and their families, but limited resources have been directed at other ways of "living off-of the land". Few know that there are a considerable number of people that live in the southern...

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Mercury (Hg) Isotope Ratio Testing

Mercury (Hg) Isotope Ratio Testing

Brooks Applied Labs (BAL) currently offers mercury (Hg) stable isotope ratio testing for environmental forensic studies. Mercury has a unique isotopic pattern and small differences in the ratios of these isotopes can help in identification of the source, transport,...

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Why So Many Bottles?

Some of our clients have questioned why so many separate bottles are needed for similar analyses, when it would be so much easier for their sample collection team to collect one bottle to be split by the lab upon receipt. For example, if a client wants to measure...

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Monitoring for Dimethylmercury

Dimethylmercury (DMeHg) is an extremely dangerous neurotoxin that can bioaccumulate in the body following exposure. This compound is not used in industry due to the risks involved, but it has been found to be produced under certain conditions when wastes containing...

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